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Essential fatty acids of pitaya (dragon fruit) seed oil
- Source :
- Food Chemistry. 114:561-564
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2009.
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Abstract
- Hylocereus undatus and Hylocereus polyrhizus are two varieties of the commonly called pitaya fruits. The seeds were separated and the oil was extracted and analysed. Essential fatty acids, namely, linoleic acid and linolenic acid form a significant percentage of the unsaturated fatty acids of the seed oil extract. Both pitaya varieties exhibit two oleic acid isomers. Essential fatty acids are important acids that are necessary substrates in animal metabolism and cannot be synthesised in vivo. Both pitaya varieties contain about 50% essential fatty acids (C18:2 (48%) and C18:3 (1.5%)). This paper details the process of recovering the pitaya seeds and determining the composition of the oil extracted from the seeds.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Hylocereus undatus
Hylocereus polyrhizus
biology
Linolenic acid
Linoleic acid
food and beverages
General Medicine
Metabolism
biology.organism_classification
Analytical Chemistry
chemistry.chemical_compound
Oleic acid
chemistry
Botany
Composition (visual arts)
Food science
Food Science
Polyunsaturated fatty acid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03088146
- Volume :
- 114
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Food Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c45020e8e202002f6648fa9bb329903a
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.09.108